...right reason and belief in God. Lincoln confessed this on his way to the White House in 1861: "[TJhere has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country, and so feeling I cannot but turn and look for the support without which it will be impossible for me...

...called himself 'the humblest of all individuals that have ever been elected to the Presidency,' a man 'without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name.'"106 Lincoln showed his humility of heart in other ways. He had that special quality of a leader...

...bleeding nation. In Columbus, Ohio, he again took a modest stance, declaring himself a man without a name: "There has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of the Country," he said. "I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never...

...the votes of the American people have called me. I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility. I cannot but know what you all know, that, without...did not rest even upon the Father of his country, and so feeling I cannot but turn and look for the support without which it will be impossible for me...

...to his friends in Springfield the day he left: I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility. I cannot but know what you all know, that, without...did not rest even upon the Father of his country, and so feeling I cannot but turn and look for the support without which it will be impossible for me...

...To the state legislature at Columbus that night Lincoln made a speech peculiar from several angles: "I cannot but know what you all know, that, without...as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country ... I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them ..."...

...of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency," he told a crowd. "I am [a man] without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name." Regarding himself "but an accidental instrument" of a strange election, Lincoln joked that he was too...

...votes of the American people have called me. I am deeply sensible of that weight)' responsibility. I cannot but know what you all know, that, without...did not rest even upon the Father of his country, and so feeling I cannot but turn and look for the support without which it will be impossible for me...

...the votes of the American people have called me. I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility. I cannot but know what you all know, that without...did not rest even upon the Father of his Country; and so feeling, I can turn and look for that support without which it will be impossible for me to...